Brand new to ExRx.net as of a few days ago. Excited by not only the great reference material on the website itself, but also by the intelligence and attitude of the "regulars".

About me22, college student (so that means I have to deal with crowded weight rooms and dining hall food - not the best environment for this sort of thing!). I'm a quarter-inch shy of 6', and have been weighing in around 178lbs.

ExperienceLifted weights for football in high school, usually followed a 5x5 format on most of the basic lifts. Scrawny until about junior year, discovered whey protein and creatine and bulked up. Actively weight trained until I went away to school.
Other than the occasional guilt trip once a month or so, didn't touch a weight for 4 years!
About a year ago, started going back twice a week, which picked up to about three times a few months later.
Since January, I have been going 4+ times a week. Until last week, I have been doing a very standard uppers/lowers routine. Switched out of it because I felt that more of a split was more appropriate now that I'm going much more frequently than when I started again a year ago.
So far I am two days through my new program, a 4-day split, and feel incredible.

DietOver the past few weeks, I have cut sugar out of my diet completely. Other than two glasses of milk, half a glass of orange juice, and (infrequently) a tiny cup of black coffee, I only drink water.
While the dining halls do not serve whole wheat bread (too expensive I guess?), I plan on making the change from multi-grain to whole-wheat this week when I start bringing my own damn bread to the cafeteria. Multi-grain just feels way too dense to me.
A typical day of food for me is an Odwalla bar, salad, bananas, peanut butter, almonds, turkey and Swiss sandwich (sometimes roast beef to mix it up), and grilled chicken. Seems pretty plain, but there's not much I can do with no k-word! I'm actually very content with my diet, am rarely hungry, and let myself eat whatever I want (in moderation) probably only once every other week at this point.
Note to self: I should be drinking more water. Probably only getting five or six glasses right now.

SupplementsMulti-vitamin and fish oil, whey protein shakes (I mix my chocolate Isopure with peanut butter, banana, and water. Amazing) once per day, but increasing to twice a day starting next week.
Have never used creatine for more than three weeks at a time, have been off creatine for a couple of weeks, but may experiment with it again after I get a hang of my HIIT program. Which brings me to...

CardioI've noticed many guys here don't wish to do cardio, but I had always been unsatisfied with a ripped upper body but no flat stomach to complement it. They say that last bit of extra fat on the lower abdomen is the hardest to get rid of, and boy, they aren't kidding! Getting rid of that is a goal of mine over the next two months.

Current RoutineAgain, started this at the beginning of the week. Still making modifications based on how I feel, and of course, the suggestions that I read on ExRx. My workout is a 4-on, 1-off split. Here is what I've done so far this week, along with my weights and reps:

This is what my HIIT program consists of:
5 minute warmup, Ten 15-second sprints with about 2 minutes break in between, Four 60-second sprints with about 4 minutes break in between. Will try to do this three times per week.

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